American oil and gas producers have deployed new technologies to provide access to trapped oil and gas once thought inaccessible. The combination of horizontal drilling with hydraulic fracturing has provided the country with a vast new supply of natural gas and increased domestic oil production.

Development of the Fayetteville Shale in Arkansas has been an economic boon for the state. Production of natural gas from the Fayetteville has pumped billions of dollars into the state’s economy and generated tens of thousands of jobs.